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CompetitionsBrain Game

Brain Game: What should be deleted from the internet? (Round 7)

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  • Our writing competition starts with 10 students who are eliminated one at a time based on your votes and YP Editors’ picks – who will you choose?
  • This week, contestants share what should be removed from the Internet world, from misinformation to social media sites like Twitter
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LifestyleInspiring teens

Teen artist Nomkakaii showcases Hong Kong food culture on Instagram

by Janice Mook
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  • Tam Ka-yan’s drawings introduce followers to the city’s street food and cha chaan teng. The 19-year-old also uses toast to connect with people around the world
  • Every week, Talking Points gives you a worksheet to practise your reading comprehension with questions and exercises about the story we’ve written
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Letters to the EditorsLGBTQ+

Your Voice: LGBTQ students have the right to be themselves (short letters)

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  • Queer teens should be allowed to choose their hairstyles and live their lives authentically, one student writes
  • Another says it’s time to move on from a traditional delicacy, calling it cruel and unethical
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Letters to the EditorsFrom YP readers

Your Voice: Hong Kong youth should watch Cantonese opera (long letters)

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  • This art form recognised by Unesco has the potential to resonate with the younger generation, writes one student
  • Another reader discusses hallyu, a term to describe how K-pop and K-dramas have become popular around the globe
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Your VoiceTop 10

Top 10: What’s your strangest hidden talent?

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  • Students share their quirky secret skills, from remembering all their dreams to guessing the prices of goods at the wet market
  • This week’s question: What’s the best thing you ever purchased in a convenience store?
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CompetitionsFor teens

Young Post’s Best of the Month Awards for December

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  • Every month, we choose the best letters, debates and creative comments we have received from our readers
  • In December, our winners discussed the ugly truth behind an international sporting event and the importance of having hotpot at school canteens
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Hong Kong

2 rushed to hospital, 77 evacuated due to fire in Hong Kong village

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  • Authorities deployed 150 emergency personnel and six ambulances to No 3 alarm blaze at Wang Lung Tsuen in Tsuen Wan
  • Intense flames and remote water source heightened difficulties for rescuers
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Environment

One third of Amazon rainforest ‘degraded’ by human activity and drought, study finds

by Agence France-Presse
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  • Researchers examined the effects of fire, logging, drought and changes to habitat and found the damage is greater than previously known
  • Brazil’s new president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has pledged to end deforestation of the Amazon by 2030
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Personal developmentMental health

Help! I did not achieve most of my goals last year. How can I improve in 2023?

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  • Each week, we respond to a question from our readers and give advice and resources they can turn to
  • This week, we help a frustrated student who feels bad about not fulfilling their New Year’s resolutions
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GlobalRussian invasion of Ukraine

Unesco lists centre of Ukraine port city Odesa as World Heritage site

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  • Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky officially requested the listing to protect it from Russian air strikes in October
  • Russia, which invaded the country in February last year, repeatedly tried to delay the vote
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GlobalSocial media

Meta says Donald Trump to be allowed back on Facebook, Instagram

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  • Former president was banned from the sites, where he had been falsely claiming the election was stolen, after the 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol
  • Advocacy groups say allowing his return to the platform would ‘refuel his misinformation and extremism engine’
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LifestyleAnimals

10 rabbit idioms to help your writing improve by leaps and bounds

by Yanni Chow
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  • As the Year of the Rabbit begins, we delve into fun sayings inspired by the furry animal known for both its cuteness and its speed
  • Do you know what it means to be like a rabbit caught in the headlights?
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EnvironmentWorld news

Climate change increases human trafficking risks, UN says

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  • Environmental disasters are uprooting people mostly from poor farming and fishing communities, leading to exploitation by criminal gangs
  • War in Ukraine another risk factor, as millions flee the country
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Hong Kong

Parents and teachers fear back-to-school culture shock for mainland students

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  • Children who attended online lessons during the pandemic face adjustment problems when in-person lessons resume in February
  • Most of the 21,000 cross-border students have not seen their classmates and teachers for three years
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Netflix gives ‘Cobra Kai’ a 6th and final season
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